GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Total War, The International (Golf), Roosevelt Corollary
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Module 8: historical overview of us foreign policy. Emergence of the us in the last quarter of the 18th century was shaped significantly by a series of world wars that started in europe: The seven years wars (french and indian war)1756-1763 complicated + involved many of the large states there. Two big lines of conflicts: the british fought a war with the french and spain over access to commerces and colonies, prussia (prominent german state) fought most of the continent, particularly. Austria over who would rule german speaking peoples in central europe. For our importance, the most important consequence of this war was a dramatic british victory over the french and the spanish in north america. If the us spend 60% of that . 55 trillion total for interest on the last war, that would imply interest payment of about . 15 trillion annually.
